Barber&#39;s check system.



PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908.

C. L. DERR.

BAEBERS CHECK SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR: 29. 1907.

CORNELIUS L. DEER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BARBERS CHECK SYSTEM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

Application filed March 29. 1907- Serial No. 365.424:

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS L. DERR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Barbers Check Systems, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to a check system especially adapted for use inbarber shops, the object of the system being to show accurately to thebarber at any time the number of check, held by the next party entitledto the chair, to save the barber the trouble of being compelled to watchthe various customers as they enter or move around the shop and toremember the order in which they came in or in which they have seatedthemselves, and also to relieve the customer of the necessity ofwatching the chairs and the other customers, in order to prevent loss oftheir turn.

A further object of the invention is a device of this kind which can beoperated with out imposing any additional labor upon any of the barbersor shop attendants.

I am aware that checking systems have been introduced in which checkswere handed to the customer as they entered and taken up by the chairattendants but this system required the services of a party to hand outchecks at the door, and provided no means by which a chair attendantcould tell exactly what checks were out, or the lowest number of thechecks out.

The invention consists also in the novel features of construction,hereinafter fully de- 1 S-shaped angle guide-strips B, arranged parallelto each other but spaced apart, thereby providing an S-shaped channel Bextending from near the top of the board to a point adj acent the bottomof the board. The upper end of this channel B opens upwardly and isprovided with a semi-cylindrical hopper O, which communicates with theupper end of the channel. At its lower end the channel also opensupwardly being angled as shown at B and across this end of the channelis extended a small bar D, which bar extends from one angled guide-stripB, to the other, being, of course spaced from the base-board A, so thatchecks can readily be lifted out of the channel-way.

The checks G used by me are slightly over an inch in diameter and may beof any desired thickness, and are numbered on both sides. I have alsoshown upon the baseboard A various card holding frames E and a matchsafe F.

The operation of the device is as follows The checks G are numbered from1 up and about thirty will be ordinarily employed. The highest numberedcheck would therefore be thirty and in filling the channel-way thechecks are dropped through the hopper O and slip down the channel-way,being held therein by the ilanges B of the guide-strips B. When thechecks have all been deposited, number 1 will be resting in position tobe withdrawn from the lower angled portion B of the channel B whilenumber thirty, will be at the top. As thirty is the highest number thenext number would be the first of the series or number 1. In calling outthe num her the chair attendants have only to look at the board A andcall the cheek number following the upper-most check G in thechannel-way. For example, if five parties entering the shop lift up anddraw out checks 1, 2, 3, 4., and 5 in succession, the check next inposition to be drawn out will be number 6, but number thirty will stillbe the uppermost check, in the channel B. As this is the last check ofthe series the barber will call for number 1, and number 1, will deposithis check in the hopper C and this check will then be the upper-most.The next call will be for number two for the reason that that is thefollowing check of number one which is the up per-most check in thechannel-way B. Check number 2 is then dropped in the hopper C andbecomes in its turn the uppermost check and indicates that the next callis to be for number 3. The barber can also determine at anytime as tothe number of checks out and the numbers carried by these checks byglancing at thelower-most and upper-most. For example, if number 2 hadbeen dropped in the-hopper C a glance at the board would have shownnumber six as the lowermost check and number two as the upper-mostcheck, thus indicating at once that checks three, four and five wereout, and the holders of them were entitled to chairs in the order named.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A device of the kind described comprising S-shaped angled and flangedguide-strips, a base-board upon Which said guide-strips are secured, anS-shaped channelbeing formed between the strips, the said-channelopening upwardly at each end, and a plurality of circular disks bearingnumerals traveling in 10 said channel, and held therein at pointsintermediate the ends of the channel by flanges of the guide strips.

CORNELIUS L. DERR.

Witnesses E. A. THOMPSON, JAs. CHRIsTNER.

